“Luckily, I’m a subscriber to MobileMe, Apple’s $99/year service which includes a handy feature called Find My iPhone. Saturday night, after losing my iPhone, I logged into Me.com/find and immediately had chills running down my spine,” O’Grady reports. “My iPhone wasn’t on the Hollywood Studios property (or any Disney property for that matter) but instead in an apartment complex about 15 minutes north.”
O’Grady reports, “My first instinct was to arm myself and retrieve my stolen property, old-school style. Luckily, I took a deep breath and instead decided to use a little tact in my pursuit… On Sunday night, I checked Find My iPhone and got chills again. My iPhone had moved from the apartment complex to a supermarket parking lot about two miles away.”
Full article, in which O’Grady asks readers what to do next, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Send a Push Notification that states: “The Orlando Police Department is currently tracking you. Leave the stolen iPhone at the supermarket’s service desk and walk away now or face arrest.” If that doesn’t work, continue tracking and sending Push Notifications that prove that you know the exact location of the person carrying the stolen iPhone at all times. Every two minutes. And, if that still doesn’t work – hello? – tell the police that you’re tracking your stolen iPhone 4, so they can go get it back for you.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
@Greg L…is it painful to be a stupid as you are?
Ok, just call Bubba and give him $50.00 – Twenty five up front and twenty five when you get the phone, tell him where their at
and sit in your car and watch. Call the police after Bubba has stomped on the guys head which has been positioned with his teeth biting the concrete. Stick around and watch the fun.
@Burn Notice – Michael Weston is too cool to lose his iPhone. (Unlike myself: I’ve used the Find iPhone feature twice.)
However: “When you have an unanticipated need to track someone, an iPhone epoxied to the underside of his car makes a perfect ad hoc tracking device. Be sure to use a slider case, so you can retrieve the iPhone later without damaging it.”
@ YouCan’tFixStupid
I’m a medical researcher with 15 patents. You are a chicken shit with no street smarts who loves to tell others—right in your very screen name—how you must be smart because you don’t suffer fools easily.
That is the true trouble with stupid: those who are complete idiots are too stupid to realize how stupid they are.
I laugh in your dumb face. Goodbye, moron.
@YouCan’tFixStupid
Has it dawned on you that your screen name is funny because it’s self-referential?
Indeed, you can’t fix that.
@Greg L…you didn’t answer my question.
Write a column about it and make money of the ordeal. That way you also get to write off your stolen iPhone as a tax deduction.
Ooooo. @Greg L with the ZING-ger! He must be very, very smart person. He does have 15 patents ya’know.
So, I stand mildly corrected. Not everyone who lacks the sound judgment to call on the police to retrieve a stolen item is a complete idiot. Some are (allegedly) well-educated idiots.